Show Donates D Books To Park City High School Principal of Park City High School Or Superintendent of Schools Park City Utah Dear Sir Just now flow the took to send to tob you a carton of books which I 1 have hove b been een intending to send you for tor some ti tib time me I have been sorting the family b books which have accumulated in my h house ouse and as all the children are married mar mar- marj n n ried ed and gone I da dO not need them i myself n m I 1 could have given them to local br branch anch libraries Cut bUt I thought maybe y yo you u might be able to use UlO them to greater a advantage than the libraries here I I Probably I shall come across more that I can spare so if It there ar are any special t ty types pes that would be more useful to you I might look out for tor them I I My late husband was an engineering g gr graduate of the University of Michigan n H He lie e was for tor many years editor of ot the p Pacific Purchaser of San Francisco Also h he e had bad Interests In buying for firms Inthe in tl th the e Orient and In Mexico and South A America merica Some of or his books I had tl th thought ought to send to China and other countries Ci co needing books on scientific s' s su subjects but now that we are In war ar p probably It would not be possible to get t the books into those countries I do not not fk know k now If It any of your readers would be ii in Interested in them i My Jy sons son's business Is unlike that or of oris I I h his is father tather so he has no use for such books b He is' is a graduate in architecture and a nd Uncle Sam San is keeping him p plenty lenty busy I I 1 asked Mrs Mawhinney Jackson who Is i Is here on an extended visit with friends i li in n Oakland If It she thought you might I f fi find nd some such books as I 1 have sent you v u useful let Iri your libraries and arid she said s s' s Ue le was sure you would As you may not have known seeing a as s how you are probably too young to tobe b be e an timer old I am a native of U Utah tah and my early childhood was spent i in n the Park My parents went there from M Muskegon Muskegon- Michigan in a very early d day ay and they lived in the thc first floor o of f the tho Marsac building which I under- under is i s stand tand was torn down clown to make moke space for fort t toe e e new school The Marsac office was wasn o on n the second floor loor I can recall It It because because be- be bet beE c cause ause as a child I lived in the house my mother r m other owned which was on the lots lotsI I v w where here the two barber shops of Aubrey and a nd Taylor are and the places where J r Mammy and anti h her r hibb hubby were It has been r m my y hope to keep those spots of ot earth as asi long i 1 l ong as I live because of sentiment We i u used sed to have to ride to Salt Lake In InI I w winter inter time when the were t threatening There were so many tragic a accidents in the region in those days Probably very few of the real old t timers imers are there now and modern In InI Inventions In- In I v make life lite easier and travel comI com com- p p p safe sate I In the newspapers lately I t have seen t the he picture of and read the account of or it ithe t the he death of Judge Sutherland of ot WashIngton Wash- Wash Ington 1 i D. 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C I remember him when beas he be heI I v w was as just a young man My parents used I to t to o take me to his house when they were c c calling alling upon his parents I I am enclosing a check which I wish y you ou would hand to the editor of The P Park ark Record I used to read it every w week eek for years and lately It has not 1 b been een sent to me I 1 suppose they are busy w with ith war Issues But if It it is still being p printed Id I'd sure like to have it They s sent ent It to me last in December I Enclosed is my check for with the t he hope that It Is not Inconveniencing y you ou too much to hand band It to the editor I I am wondering how Dad Is and what i Is s happening to everybody up there l If It were not war time I would take a trip up Into the Wasatch country and andee s see ee for myself But here in Berkeley we were a are re on the rim of San Francisco Bay looking l out through the Golden Gate Oate to t the he Orient flaming laming with war On account of ot thousands of Japanese r residents and citizens having been sent into nto i Internment camps and Chinese men b being eing drafted for tor the army and some of t them hem sent out Into the country to do what thousands of Japs were doing raising Food-raising for Californians and and be because because be- be c cause ause also alea of the expansion of the f factories of nearby communities around j t the he bay due to war needs ships airplanes airplanes air air- planes machinery etc it It is practically I impossible for any of us to get help in any way So we who are too frail fral for n physical work have had to burn bum the I dried grass around our premises hunt huntor f for or junk in our attics and basement and c carry arry It to the street for tor collection do our own housework and carry our own groceries up hillsides The youth of the r region is strangely missing Whole hills In some parts of ot the bay r region have been scooped out by large machines and the soil soli gravel sand l loaded on trucks and then on barges and dumped in the shallow waters of the bay to create new sites for tor more mor factories fac- fac t tories ories and warehouses close to shipping l lanes anes The landscape changes as it were over night More workmen move into the area and so the has had to fill whole ac acis s of pastureland with prefabricated prefabricated prefabricated pre- pre fabricated houses for the families to live in This has created a need for tor more food foed So now when I 1 walk through the downtown streets I am reminded of the rhythm of a poem of a California writer Scott Erskine Wood of Los Loe Gatos Gat at at the close of ot a poem entitled China China- town which town which reads readE A stranger in a foreign land I walk through Chinatown And that is the way some of us who have lived here on the San Francisco hills and Berkeley and Oakland hills bills feel teel as we look over the landscape and the bay and walk along the street street we we are strangers In a foreign land Jand right here In the old home town I II I It is a very interesting If disconcertIng disconcert- disconcert Ing phenomenon In sociology as well asIn as asIn in history ln in the making I Probably the old earth was due for tor a aI hou house cleaning e and for a stirring up In I She had bad been revolving on her for tor quite some time and readJustments readjustments readjust- readjust ments had become imperative The youth of the world Instead of I staying home or put in lii some seine business business busi busi- ness or trade of traditional pattern to toI I grow graw gray in the usual way way way-Is is now bet betag be- be t t. t tag g flung lung to far tar away places where the scenery is IU strange and the peoples people UnknOwn unknown un un- known I It Is as if It the world were a huge batch of 01 Ingredients in a monster cake bowl and an unseen cook is stirring the con con- tents When the stirring Is sufficient it molds and baked and ked In jn Ina will be poured into a hot ot oven When done It may mayBe be dell dell- clous or or It may be a dismal failure Nobody can caU tell Io Howler er L tem lam tun personally h hoping that the e ef f future U WO world ld after the mixing at an anthe and id rid idid the baking Is going to be the th best evi ever Cr i and a real Improvement in many we ways ls l's over over the old world as a. many people have ha haI va I known it 1 L I With best wishes for tor THE a aI and id ad l nil all her people I remain Sincerely ly I I MARGARET Vf MAnG RET MASON MABON Berke erkel V California July 27 1642 1942 |